Household fruit-press.



1.1. MARKOV|CH.

HOUSEHOLD FRUIT PRESS.

ABPUCATION FILED'JAN.'11. I915.

Patented Aug. l0, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent. i Payteltfhgt 915.;

sppiicanon fiied January i1, wie. seriales. Lecc.

To all fio/m it moy concern Be it known that l, JOSEPH J. MannovIcH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Uniontown7 in the county of Fayette and' Ahousehold use although the same may be made of any desired size and by means of 'which the juice is readily extracted from fruit such grapes while the device isV cheap and inexpensive to manufacture and f is formed 'of only a few parts which are se arable for cleaningpurposes.

A further object of the device is to pro vide a Jiioramii'ious fruit. container removably positioned within a casing having an outlet valve while a reciprocating plunger shiftably mounted within the container is manually operable'by a hand lever and a constant pressure is maintainable the employment of a weight in connection therewith. v

With the@ *general objects in ,View and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is lbetter understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrange ment oit' parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

ln the drawings forming a part of this application and in lwhich like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the 'several viewsz-Figure 1 is 'a central vertical sectional view throu h the device. Fig. 2 is a top plan View t ereof partially broken away showing thesquare forni ofthe device, and F ig. 3 is a similar view of the cylindrical form thereof.

Referring more in detail to the drawings,V

it will be' noted' that an exterior opened topped casing 10 is provided mounted upon supporting le s 11 having rollers 12 journaled in the gottoins thereof and whereby the press may be readily moved about.

fruit container 13 also having an open top and provided `vwith pertorations 1 4 through the sides thereof is removably positioned vwithin the casing 10 being seated upon two parallel cleats 15 secured to the bottom of the easing and whereby the ,containeris elevated above the said bottoni. "Spacing strips are secured longitudinally to thev inner sides of the casing substantiallv centrally thereof between which strips thve con* tainer .is slidably inserted within vthe casing, the said strips being adapted to space the casing from `the container.

A. post 17 is secured inupright 'position to the casing and has one end of an operating lever 18 pivoted thereto at 1t) and is pro-- vided with a'plurality of openings'20 adjacent the free end thereof 'for the reception of i a suspending hook 21 olf a pressing weight 22. A piston 23 closely litting Within the container is adapted to be recipro--,

cated therein by means of the piston rod 24 which has its opposite ends pivoted to the piston as at 25 andto the hand lever as at 26.

vThe casing is provided with a draw-oil faucet 27- while the container has opposite hand-holdopenings 28 whereby the container may be Withdrawn from the casing after the'piston and its rod have been removed therefrom.

The complete loperation of the device will be at once apparent from this detailed description thereoil in that the fruit or other matter to be pressed as indicated at 29 is positioned within the Yforaniinous container 13. The piston is then seated upon the t fili of the fruit and the hand .lever 18 move vdownwardly for reciprocating the piston as at 3l. lt will thus be seen that aA fruit press especially adapted for household purposes is provided although the same may be made in any size desired. The Weight-22 may be suspended from the operatin lever 18 `for giving e constant pressure of t iepiston uponthe fruit when the same is found desirable and may be shifted to the desired one of the openings 20 ior producing dielqd ent degrees of leverage upon the piston.

lis-Will be noted that in Fig'. 2 the device' is rectangular in cross section`J While 'in Fig. Sthe same is shown as circular in cross section and the easing and container of cy lindrical form. .lt will he noted that :the

- vention as set forth in the appended claim.

elementsas well as functions of the inven- 'y tion are identical in both forms illustrated.

and as indicated by the reference numerals in said Figs. 2 and 3l of the drawings.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what is believed to be the preferable embodiment thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes 'may be made in the form proportion and'vdetails of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the in- VVhat I claim `as new is A device'of thelclass described comprising a casing, spacing cleats within said casmg upon the bottom thereof,'spaeing strips within the casing and longitudinally posi tioned centrally of the sides thereof, a

foraminous container positioned within the said casing engaging the said cleats and strips ed beneath the said casing, a post secured to the casing, and operating lever pivoted to the upper end of said post and having a plurality of perforations longitudinally ar-V ranged adjacent the free end thereof, a piston mounted within said container, a piston rod pivoted at its opposite ends to the said piston and lever and a weight member removably suspended from the lever and engaging one of said perforations thereof.

In testimony whereof I aliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH J. MARKOVICH. Witnesses:

A. W. HOUSE, W. C. MULLAN. 

